Sunday, October 2, 2016

"The Court of the Crimson King" is the fifth and final track from the British progressive rock band KING CRIMSONs debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. Also released as a single, it reached #80 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Along with "Heartbeat", it is one of the band's only two charting singles in the United States. The band is out touring atm, yesterday they visited Stockholm :), more dates below.

KING CRIMSON are an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history of which 21 musicians have been members; since 2016 it has consisted of Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk, Tony Levin, Mel Collins, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey. Fripp is the only consistent member of the group, and is considered the band's leader and driving force. The band has earned a large cult following.

In the Court of the Crimson King (subtitled An Observation by KING CRIMSON) is the debut studio album by the British rock
group KING CRIMSON, released on 10 October 1969. The album reached number five on the British charts, and is certified
gold in the United States, where it reached #28 on the Billboard 200.

The album is generally viewed as one of the first works to truly embody the progressive rock genre, where KING CRIMSON
largely departed from the blues influences that rock music had been founded upon and mixed together jazz and classical
symphonic elements. In his 1997 book Rocking the Classics, critic and musicologist Edward Macan notes that In the Court of
the Crimson King "may be the most influential progressive rock album ever released". The Who's Pete Townshend was
quoted as calling the album "an uncanny masterpiece". In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition PINK FLOYD & The Story of
Prog Rock, the album came fourth in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums". The album was named as one of Classic Rock
magazine's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".

The album was remastered and re-released on vinyl and CD several times during the 1980s and 1990s. All of these versions
were based on tape copies that were several generations removed from the originals. The original first-generation stereo
master tapes were thought to be lost, but were finally located in a storage vault in 2003. This led to a much improved
remastered CD version, released in 2004.

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